Tag: instagram

• Commodity Kardashians

  August 27, 2022

  Technology does not want to replace you. It wants to make you interchangeable. The shift to an assumed-interest feed (rather than an expressed-interest feed) means it’s harder for anyone to build… more ›

• Censored: the exhibitions that Instagram doesn’t want you to see

  August 27, 2022

  Artists need a platform to be seen; before Instagram, that platform was usually the exhibition space. Integral to the existence and success of art that pushes boundaries, powerful exhibitions naturally… more ›

• The end of the metaverse hopefully

  February 5, 2022

  Meta, the company that owns Facebook, had a pretty bad day yesterday. The company, on an earnings call, reported that it had lost users for the first time in its… more ›

• The Future of Hotel Design

  October 18, 2020

  Mobile guest rooms, enhanced contactless room controls, robotic servers and pop-up dining areas are just a few of the ideas hotel designers are considering for the post-Covid travel world. Whether… more ›

• How Facebook Entrenches Itself

  October 3, 2020

  For example, Facebook is starting to let people use Instagram to send a photo to someone using Messenger, and vice versa. In the future, you might be able to text… more ›

• Inside Facebook’s quadruple play: How the company is finally melding its apps

  October 1, 2020

  Stan Chudnovsky doesn’t remember when CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other top Facebook executives began talking about treating the company’s portfolio of services more like, well, a portfolio. With some of… more ›

• What if Facebook goes down? Ethical and legal considerations for the demise of big tech

  August 16, 2020

  Society is becoming increasingly dependent on data-rich, “Big Tech” platforms and social networks, such as Facebook and Google. But what happens to our data when these companies close or fail?… more ›

• Instagram ‘censorship’ of black model’s photo reignites claims of race bias

  August 9, 2020

  Hundreds of users fought the platform last week to share the censored photos of Nicholas-Williams under the hashtag #IwanttoseeNyome, while Cameron accused Instagram of a disconnect between its positive statements over… more ›

• Instagram Filters Are Changing the Way We Think About Makeup

  April 28, 2020

  In the middle of a global health crisis, there’s one Instagram filter that skyrocketed to popularity: Butterfly Pretty. Most of us have already seen it from celebrities like Kylie Jenner,… more ›

• Platforms and Publishers: The End of an Era

  November 26, 2019

  This report is part of an ongoing, multi-year study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School into the relationship between large-scale technology companies and journalism. This… more ›